GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Terrill Shaw wasn't overly impressed with his record-setting performance in the ArenaBowl.

Shaw caught an ArenaBowl record five TD passes Sunday and was the MVP of the Grand Rapids Rampage's 64-42 victory over the Nashville Kats.

Shaw, released by Buffalo earlier this year, finished with 12 receptions for 172 yards.

"I was just doing what they pay me to do, which is run routes and score touchdowns," Shaw said. "I told myself that I wasn't going to be stopped today."

The five TD catches broke the record of four set by Steve Thomas in 1991 and matched by Eddie Brown in 1999.

Quarterback Clint Dolezel led Grand Rapids to a championship game scoring record.

"As a little boy you dream about something like this," said Dolezel, who completed 26 of 36 passes for 308 yards. "We went through the whole year with people going down and other people stepping up and making the plays."

Dolezel tied ArenaBowl records with seven TD passes and four in the first half.

The Rampage defense, which surrendered more than 55 points per game this season, stopped Nashville on downs early in the second quarter, and then JoJo Polk intercepted an Andy Kelly pass with 40 seconds left in the first half.

"This game always comes down to stops," said Grand Rapids coach Michael Trigg, the league's coach of the year. "We have always felt that because of how good our offense is, our defense can be aggressive."

Trigg has won three league championships. He was a quarterback for the ArenaBowl champion Detroit Drive in 1989 and 1990.

Kelly became just the second starting quarterback in AFL history to lose two straight ArenaBowls. The only other is Kurt Warner, who lost the 1996 and 1997 games while playing for Iowa.

"We didn't play as well as we are capable of," said Kelly, who completed 12 of 26 passes for 243 yards and three touchdowns. "We just didn't get it done today."

The Rampage, which had a league-best 14-3 record, claimed its first AFL title.

"It wasn't our night. We didn't play Kat football," coach Pat Sperduto said. "When things are going right for our football team, we are forcing fumbles and forcing the quarterback to throw bad passes, and that didn't happen."

The Rampage never won an AFL playoff game before this season, but they outscored the league's top defense again Sunday before a sellout crowd of 11,217 at VanAndel Arena.

Nashville (12-5) allowed a game average of just 39.3 points this season, but the Grand Rapids offense managed at least 60 points in each of three meetings with the Kats.

Grand Rapids beat Nashville 60-41 in the preseason, then rallied from a 14-0 deficit to win 60-54 in Nashville in the ninth week.

Before Sunday, Nashville hadn't trailed by more than 14 points this season.